A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...
When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...
A baby hummingbird might have a special way of warding off predators, which threaten tropical hummingbird species in infancy.
A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.
A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be ...
Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.
But, last March, researchers discovered a female jacobin hummingbird incubating an egg in its nest, not far from a forest trail. The nest, smaller than Dr. Falk’s palm, was made of plant parts ...
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In a first, hummingbird baby found using caterpillar disguise to scare predatorsThat changed when Michael Castaño-Díaz and Sebastián Gallan Giraldo, a Ph.D student and research assistant, spotted a White-necked Jacobin nest with a caring female and one egg in a national park in ...
Uncover the mysteries of hummingbirds. How does the white-necked jacobin trick predators through mimicry? Find out now.
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